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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8886826" data-attributes="member: 42582">This probably isn't right, which is why I'm replying to it.If a 3PP who is currently a party to a licence agreement with WotC in terms of the OGL v 1.0a wants to continue to rely on their contractual rights, they don't need to bring a case against WotC to prove anything. All they have to do is keep publishing.If WotC commences action against them for copyright infringement, then that party would plead their contract in defence. As has been discussed upthread, that may be expensive - even prohibitively so.On the other hand, if WotC does not commence - eg because it recognises that it would lose on the merits and doesn't want to open up the door to that possibility - the publisher can just keep publishing.To be clear, this post is not attempting to give anyone legal or commercial advice. The point is that, in a common law system (and I would guess civil law systems also), a person who has the benefit of a contractual right does not need to go to court to seek a declaration of right in order to lawfully act in reliance upon their right.</blockquote>